Taxonavigation

Familia: Odontaspididae
Genus: Carcharias
Species: Carcharias taurus

Name

Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810: 10, Pl. 14 (fig. 1)

Type locality: [Sicilia] Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. (No types known).

References

• Rafinesque, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. (Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i–iv] 3–69. Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia-iva + 71–105. Pls. 1–20.
• Bonfil, R. & Abdallah, M. 2004. Field identification guide to the sharks and rays of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. FAO. Rome: i–viii + 1–71.
• Moore, A.B.M., Compagno, L.J.V. & Fergusson, I.K. 2007. The Persian/Arabian Gulf's sole great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) record from Kuwait: misidentification of a sandtiger shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae). Zootaxa 1591: 67–68.
• Wirtz, P., Ferreira, C.E.L., Floeter, S.R., Fricke, R., Gasparini, J.L. Iwamoto, T., Rocha, L.A., Sampaio, C.L.S. & Schliewen, U. 2007. Coastal fishes of São Tomé and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean) – an update. Zootaxa 1523: 1–48. Reference page. 
• Carcharias taurus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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